1. Buy a PVC pipe about one foot long. 2. Buy a butt-ended neon light about 5 feet long. 3. Buy a bunch of electronic components 4. Build a DC-to-AC power supply 5. Plug everything together. 6. Insert batteries. 7. KILL!
If the thing is 150 l-yrs away from us, that means everything we see about it is 150 years late, right ? So if it ever does explode, by the time we see it coming it will be too late already. Even if we were to launch some sort of defensive weapon or shield or whatnot, it would inevitably miss the target because it would be another 150 years late. Think long-distance phone lag, measured in years, not seconds.
IANAML (I Am Not A Mac Lover), but what's so hot about this stuff ? Admittedly, the zooming seems quite nice in the demo, but what's the real-world use of this stuff ? I run in 1600x1200 all the time on my 19" screen, and used to run my 12" laptop in 1024x768 just fine. The only time I need to zoom in on something is when I'm drawing in Photoshop or 3dsMax, and they have a native zoom function.
To my short-sighted mind, this tech is only good for trying to catch Natalie Portman's nips. Now if you've willingly purchased a Mac, I think you have much better uses for the box.
And if you slam into a wall at 212mph, chances are it's also going to catch fire and explode within a few seconds.
Ok so the tires never wear out, but there isn't a tire shop in the entire game. "Oh, I have to kill some Triads up north. I wonder if I should get snowgrips?!"
GTA has never been about realism, it's been about violent and chaotic fantasy. If the cars were really as gutless as real cars, well it just might remind us of real life and how boring it is, which is why we bought these expensive toys in the first place : to take a little break from reality.
CAHANER'S RED-SKINNED CHICKEN looks a little ridiculous, but the lack of feathers keeps the birds cooler and leaner than their feathered cousins -- useful in hot countries.
If the heat is giving chickens are hard time down there, I wonder what they put on their Athlons!? (rimshot)
The government's job is to keep preserve the lives of those who pay taxes. That's it. Gov't exists to try to make people happy in their country, so that they won't get pissed and move to some other country, taking their taxmoney with them. That's it. Government is a fucking business like any other. It's just dangerously large, stupid but powerful. Kinda like the Borg really.
The whole closed-source model is flawed. The only things I think should be closed are games and other non-business-critical things. If your business heavily depends on some piece of software, then write it in-house or at least hire some qualified people to do it, rather than buy whatever Gates or Ellison want you to use. One way or another, it's just a huge lump of money that's being tossed around different pockets.
Closed source wastes money and people on marketing and advertising and all that bullshit, but creates a profit in the end, from selling the software.
Open source keeps things clean by only requiring developers/artists/a manager. No marketing, little waste. But you don't make any profit other than the use of your own software.
Either way, programmers are being paid. The difference is that for closed source you have one ugly prick sitting on top of the company getting rich from doing absolutely nothing.
Indeed, open source looks alot like communism from the dollar bill's point of view, whereas closed source is rooted deeply in capitalism, i.e. the rich getting richer at the expense of the poor.
The solution to this dilemma obviously depends on which end of the social hierarchy you're closest to.
The kiddie factor isn't just about the pointless fuzzy characters. Look at the storyline, it's so damned moronic even a comatose 2 year old would understand it. "Whee, that kid built a pod racer. That means he has uber-Jedi powers." It's like drowning an ounce of rum in a gallon of coke : it's a drink, but not a potent one. Well this movie is technically a movie, but by common judgment it's a watered-down piece of media-whoring fluff.
That's a good thing. If the graphs were fan-fucking-tastic looking, then I'd be led to suppose that the person spent hours making it look good because they didn't spend hours actually testing the hardware : it don't exist!
Didn't go. I've got Gungan-o-phobia. If I see another kiddie-oriented sci-opera I'm shaving my head and paying a personal visit to Georgie. Episode 1 made me puke, overpriced movie tickets give me diarrhea, and I'm just about tired of these mega-hyped monstrosities that are usually little more than sugar-coated bullshit on film.
The last time I was really _really_ impressed in a movie theatre was when I saw Baise Moi ("Rape me") at a local indie cinema. That's an extreme movie in all senses, but it was more than a bunch of pretty faces going against a vicious villain. Anything hollywood-esque is so watered down and retarded, might as well watch "Days of our Lives".
When the federal courts get together to shut you up and rape you of your basic liberties, then maybe it's time you packed your bags and moved somewhere else.
I'm glad to be living in Canada right now. I know this kind of bullshit will probably arrive in a few years since we're USA's sock puppet, but at least we'll have had those years to learn from others' mistakes and know what to avoid. Or we'll just all get drunk and beat the shit out of anyone in a suit:)
Apparently it's not just the FFXI servers that can't handle the load.. anything related to FFXI in any way will buckle because there are zillions of SquareSoft fans hitting "Reload" 18 times per second, a nervous twitch left over from pulling off huge GF boosts in FF8.
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No No No, the reason why NV is king of the hill is because they successfully convinced bleeding-edge freaks like myself that it's perfectly acceptable to pay 350$ for a video card that will lose 70% of its value within 12 months. at which point you spend another 350$ to renew your setup.
Yes, I'm a Geforce addict. I bought the GF2 before the shop monkeys even had time to pull it out of the truck. I've been drooling over a GF4 for a couple of months now, waiting for the Ti4600's to get stocked up here. I'd eat Kraft Dinner for a month just to afford another pair of programmable pixel shaders.
That's why they're on top: they wooed the polygon-heads with performance, now they're sucking us dry by selling us even more performance. And we're loving every minute of it. NVidiCrack!
Why won't we be seeing this technology used for conventional TCP/IP networks ? Because the acronym for Serial-ATA Network is SATAN! Har dee har har.
Seriously, why not ? I don't know squat about this new standard but if they can zip bits from a hard drive to a cpu, why couldn't they zip them between two cpus instead ?
if AotC got a 12 cert, then Lucas would loose all those kids who he seems to be aiming at
Who else here thinks that would be a good lesson for Georgie ? The kiddie-factor in EP1 is what turned most of us off. It just doesn't feel like star wars anymore, it's so immature and cheap. I definitely don't plan on seeing EP2 when it comes out, my faith in the franchise has withered, Lucas is too old and senile for this stuff anymore.
Solution ? Boycott the 'new' Mp3.com, nuke their nameservers, DDoS their stream servers, toss some frickin' pipe bombs into their colo cages. Then start over with a fresh clean site that picks up where the original Mp3.com left off.
What got them in trouble is the My-Mp3.com gimmick, that essentially let you listen to 'your' cd's off the net, once you had proven you owned them (through a simple CDDB-like check). This was their big legal boo-boo that started the avalanche of copyright lawsuits.
Mp3.com used to be a place where _GOOD_ indie artists could earn a little cash and sometimes land a record deal with small-time publishing houses. It essentially took power away from the megawhoring music 'industry' and created a lower-end market for the rest of us.
Just install webcams pointing at every single monitor in the building, all displaying on your own console in a dark room behind a one-way mirror. When you spot any pr0n or other undesirable usage, just put on some cool shades and walk up to the luser's box, right in his face. Put on some gloves and snip the PC's power cord with cable cutters while saying "Access Denied" through a portable voice morpher.
Then punch the living shiznit out of the fuckin' unrespectful perv.
I fully agree. 3DR fucked up bigtime on Max Payne because of their silence. A rather cool game that had been hyped for years without really showing anything to 'tease' us. It took a few months before people really noticed it, by which time there were newer hits on the market, leaving Payne in the shadows.
Doom3 will be pre-ordered like mad because it is a highly anticipated title. We don't quite know what's in store for us, but we have this impression it's going to rock hard. 3D Realms' hype feels like wet noodles.
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How to make your own light saber :
1. Buy a PVC pipe about one foot long.
2. Buy a butt-ended neon light about 5 feet long.
3. Buy a bunch of electronic components
4. Build a DC-to-AC power supply
5. Plug everything together.
6. Insert batteries.
7. KILL!
If the thing is 150 l-yrs away from us, that means everything we see about it is 150 years late, right ? So if it ever does explode, by the time we see it coming it will be too late already. Even if we were to launch some sort of defensive weapon or shield or whatnot, it would inevitably miss the target because it would be another 150 years late. Think long-distance phone lag, measured in years, not seconds.
IANAML (I Am Not A Mac Lover), but what's so hot about this stuff ? Admittedly, the zooming seems quite nice in the demo, but what's the real-world use of this stuff ? I run in 1600x1200 all the time on my 19" screen, and used to run my 12" laptop in 1024x768 just fine. The only time I need to zoom in on something is when I'm drawing in Photoshop or 3dsMax, and they have a native zoom function.
To my short-sighted mind, this tech is only good for trying to catch Natalie Portman's nips. Now if you've willingly purchased a Mac, I think you have much better uses for the box.
Dude, if you flip the car, it explodes!
And if you slam into a wall at 212mph, chances are it's also going to catch fire and explode within a few seconds.
Ok so the tires never wear out, but there isn't a tire shop in the entire game. "Oh, I have to kill some Triads up north. I wonder if I should get snowgrips?!"
GTA has never been about realism, it's been about violent and chaotic fantasy. If the cars were really as gutless as real cars, well it just might remind us of real life and how boring it is, which is why we bought these expensive toys in the first place : to take a little break from reality.
We finally have one entity to sue into oblivion. It won't stop the others, but at least we'll vent the frustration a bit :)
CAHANER'S RED-SKINNED CHICKEN looks a little ridiculous, but the lack of feathers keeps the birds cooler and leaner than their feathered cousins -- useful in hot countries.
If the heat is giving chickens are hard time down there, I wonder what they put on their Athlons!?
(rimshot)
The government's job is to keep preserve the lives of those who pay taxes. That's it. Gov't exists to try to make people happy in their country, so that they won't get pissed and move to some other country, taking their taxmoney with them. That's it. Government is a fucking business like any other. It's just dangerously large, stupid but powerful. Kinda like the Borg really.
The whole closed-source model is flawed. The only things I think should be closed are games and other non-business-critical things. If your business heavily depends on some piece of software, then write it in-house or at least hire some qualified people to do it, rather than buy whatever Gates or Ellison want you to use. One way or another, it's just a huge lump of money that's being tossed around different pockets.
Closed source wastes money and people on marketing and advertising and all that bullshit, but creates a profit in the end, from selling the software.
Open source keeps things clean by only requiring developers/artists/a manager. No marketing, little waste. But you don't make any profit other than the use of your own software.
Either way, programmers are being paid. The difference is that for closed source you have one ugly prick sitting on top of the company getting rich from doing absolutely nothing.
Indeed, open source looks alot like communism from the dollar bill's point of view, whereas closed source is rooted deeply in capitalism, i.e. the rich getting richer at the expense of the poor.
The solution to this dilemma obviously depends on which end of the social hierarchy you're closest to.
The kiddie factor isn't just about the pointless fuzzy characters. Look at the storyline, it's so damned moronic even a comatose 2 year old would understand it. "Whee, that kid built a pod racer. That means he has uber-Jedi powers." It's like drowning an ounce of rum in a gallon of coke : it's a drink, but not a potent one. Well this movie is technically a movie, but by common judgment it's a watered-down piece of media-whoring fluff.
That's a good thing. If the graphs were fan-fucking-tastic looking, then I'd be led to suppose that the person spent hours making it look good because they didn't spend hours actually testing the hardware : it don't exist!
Didn't go. I've got Gungan-o-phobia. If I see another kiddie-oriented sci-opera I'm shaving my head and paying a personal visit to Georgie. Episode 1 made me puke, overpriced movie tickets give me diarrhea, and I'm just about tired of these mega-hyped monstrosities that are usually little more than sugar-coated bullshit on film.
The last time I was really _really_ impressed in a movie theatre was when I saw Baise Moi ("Rape me") at a local indie cinema. That's an extreme movie in all senses, but it was more than a bunch of pretty faces going against a vicious villain. Anything hollywood-esque is so watered down and retarded, might as well watch "Days of our Lives".
When the federal courts get together to shut you up and rape you of your basic liberties, then maybe it's time you packed your bags and moved somewhere else.
:)
I'm glad to be living in Canada right now. I know this kind of bullshit will probably arrive in a few years since we're USA's sock puppet, but at least we'll have had those years to learn from others' mistakes and know what to avoid. Or we'll just all get drunk and beat the shit out of anyone in a suit
Apparently it's not just the FFXI servers that can't handle the load.. anything related to FFXI in any way will buckle because there are zillions of SquareSoft fans hitting "Reload" 18 times per second, a nervous twitch left over from pulling off huge GF boosts in FF8.
No No No, the reason why NV is king of the hill is because they successfully convinced bleeding-edge freaks like myself that it's perfectly acceptable to pay 350$ for a video card that will lose 70% of its value within 12 months. at which point you spend another 350$ to renew your setup.
Yes, I'm a Geforce addict. I bought the GF2 before the shop monkeys even had time to pull it out of the truck. I've been drooling over a GF4 for a couple of months now, waiting for the Ti4600's to get stocked up here. I'd eat Kraft Dinner for a month just to afford another pair of programmable pixel shaders.
That's why they're on top: they wooed the polygon-heads with performance, now they're sucking us dry by selling us even more performance. And we're loving every minute of it. NVidiCrack!
Why won't we be seeing this technology used for conventional TCP/IP networks ? Because the acronym for Serial-ATA Network is SATAN! Har dee har har.
Seriously, why not ? I don't know squat about this new standard but if they can zip bits from a hard drive to a cpu, why couldn't they zip them between two cpus instead ?
And watch your PCI bus catch on fire!
It could be very well exciting if the Matrox card doesn't cost 400$ US on release.
CRAYONS!
(rimshot)
Excel is good enough for everyone else.. every single review site out there uses Excel or any other charting software.
If you're distracted enough to waste time and concentration counting 5 vehicles behind you, then you shouldn't be driving, period.
Besides, who can see 5 cars in their rearview mirror unless they're driving a pickup ?
Who else here thinks that would be a good lesson for Georgie ? The kiddie-factor in EP1 is what turned most of us off. It just doesn't feel like star wars anymore, it's so immature and cheap. I definitely don't plan on seeing EP2 when it comes out, my faith in the franchise has withered, Lucas is too old and senile for this stuff anymore.
Solution ? Boycott the 'new' Mp3.com, nuke their nameservers, DDoS their stream servers, toss some frickin' pipe bombs into their colo cages. Then start over with a fresh clean site that picks up where the original Mp3.com left off.
What got them in trouble is the My-Mp3.com gimmick, that essentially let you listen to 'your' cd's off the net, once you had proven you owned them (through a simple CDDB-like check). This was their big legal boo-boo that started the avalanche of copyright lawsuits.
Mp3.com used to be a place where _GOOD_ indie artists could earn a little cash and sometimes land a record deal with small-time publishing houses. It essentially took power away from the megawhoring music 'industry' and created a lower-end market for the rest of us.
Just install webcams pointing at every single monitor in the building, all displaying on your own console in a dark room behind a one-way mirror. When you spot any pr0n or other undesirable usage, just put on some cool shades and walk up to the luser's box, right in his face. Put on some gloves and snip the PC's power cord with cable cutters while saying "Access Denied" through a portable voice morpher.
Then punch the living shiznit out of the fuckin' unrespectful perv.
I fully agree. 3DR fucked up bigtime on Max Payne because of their silence. A rather cool game that had been hyped for years without really showing anything to 'tease' us. It took a few months before people really noticed it, by which time there were newer hits on the market, leaving Payne in the shadows.
Doom3 will be pre-ordered like mad because it is a highly anticipated title. We don't quite know what's in store for us, but we have this impression it's going to rock hard. 3D Realms' hype feels like wet noodles.